Early Arrival of the Yellow-rump in Southern Maine. — This 

 morning — March 21, 18S2 — I found a solitary Yellow-rumped Warbler 

 {DendfCBca coronata) flitting about in a struggling growth of spruces, on 

 Cape Elizabeth. His arrival is unprecedentedly early for this vicinity. 

 The Yellow-rumpis usually reach Portland in the last week of April, 

 sometimes not until after May i, and up to to-day I have never seen one 

 before April 21, which was the date of their appearance in 1S79. My 

 little friend of this morning was probably only an accidental and tem- 

 porary visitor. Snow still lies from tWo to three feet deep in the woods, 

 and much blustering, wintry weather must be expected, before the earliest 

 Warblers come to us in earnest. — Nathan Clifford Brown. Portland, 



Maine. BuJI. N.G.O. 7, April, 1882. P. J/f. 



The Yellow-rumped Warbler Wintering in Maine.-On January i iSfic 

 i^r^I^rM':"^'" Warblers (Z>.„.,_ ..ronatJt:Zl 1:^^^ 

 witirthe sl^. " " '^'"°P°'" I it filled 



til 1 '^^^ "^^^^ 



GonnAT^ r 7 J ,1 Massachusetts.-JosEPH L. 



GOODALE, C«;„W^.., 2_ ^pj^ii^ igQ^^ P. S./6. 



The YeUow-nimped Warbler Wintering in Maine.— On January i, 1885, 



I shot two Yellow-rumped Warblers {Dendrceca coronata) from a flock of 

 SIX at Pine point, Maine. On opening the crop of one, I found it filled 

 with the seeds of the pitch pine. I believe this species has never before 

 been taken in the winter season north of Massachusetts.— Joseph L. 

 GooDALE, Cambridge, Mass. ( ^ ^^L-^ ^ Hs'C} 



I think it is almost equally'certain that the Yellow-rumped Warbler; 

 were also wintering at Pine Point. Maine, as they do regularly at Milton 

 Mass. (only about niiietv miles -coulh). where 1 have found them everi 

 winter for a number of years.— Arthur P, CtiADnouRXK, Cam/'ridge 



Mass. 



But when Mr. Chadbourne comes to speak^of Yellow-rumps, he is, to 

 say the least, forgetful of the laws which regulate the geographical distri- 

 bution of birds. He believes it "almost equally certain that the Yellow- 

 rumped Warblers were wintering at Pine Point, Maine," because "they 

 do regularly at Milton, Mass., only about ninety miles south," and 

 because they winter also at other points in Massachusetts. He gives no 

 other reasons. It is hardly necessary to discuss the cogency of those 

 which he does produce : they are not in the nature of evidence^--NATHAN 

 Clifford 'AKOViv,, Portla^id, Maine. AAIK* 3. Jan., 188<5, y,1^rl'^/- 



